Does it sometimes seem like every single inch of Earth has been discovered? Far from it. But scientists are working on it.

The World Health Organization estimates that ... “Everybody’s got a story to tell.” Sharon Guynup is a National Geographic explorer and a global fellow at the Wilson Center.

Atop Mount Nemrut lies what some call the eighth wonder of the world: a religious sanctuary of 10 colossal statues surrounding a mound believed to hold the tomb of an ancient king. These ...

A battle over plastic—a material so prolific the UN calls the 90 percent of it that ends up as trash a pollution crisis—is under way in Florida. Coral Gables, a small city of 51,000 people ...

In this 17th-century map, with top facing south ... At the time, Europeans were grappling with a sea change in their vision of the world, one that was expanding dramatically with increasing ...

(see a video on APR by the National Geographic Society ... We associate this part of the world with rugged individualism, but brandings are remarkably communitarian rituals, willing exchanges ...

The InSAR Selected Glacier Site Velocity Maps are produced from image pairs measured by the German Aerospace Center's (DLR) twin satellites TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X (TSX / TDX). The measurements in this ...

“It was literally out of this world,” says Costello ... Photograph by Amy Toensing, National Geographic Image Collection But do any of these inflammation-hacking techniques help accelerate ...

Photograph by JOEL SARTORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO ARK 1987: Montreal protocol World leaders agree to phase out ozone-depleting substances just a few years after the ozone hole is found.

Comprising less than 5% of the world's population ... This article was created in partnership with the National Geographic Society. Oriente Region, Ecuador — Pushed forward by a chugging ...

This story was adapted from the National Geographic book 100 Beaches of a Lifetime: The World's Ultimate Shorelines, by Freda Moon and Ashley Harrell.

Buoyed by her successes, she began planning the most ambitious flight ever undertaken by a woman to date—a solo flight around the world. Amelia Earhart's disappearance marks the front page of ...